By the 1850s, the Thuggees were mostly eradicated and the British determined to use similar methods to tackle other issues on a nationwide scale.
22.
The Thugs then attempt to shoot Indy with arrows, until a company of British Indian Army riflemen arrive and open fire on the Thuggee archers.
23.
The department consisted of around 120 people, who captured around 3000 Thuggees, of whom 466 were hanged, 1564 transported and 933 imprisoned for life.
24.
If ever there was an unpromising task, if ever there was a hopeless task in the world, surely it was offered here the task of conquering Thuggee.
25.
;Thug : a gangster or ruffian ready to use excessive violence ( from the religious Indian Thuggee cult, alleged to practice robbery and murder by strangulation ).
26.
We have now followed the big official book through, and we understand what Thuggee was, what a bloody terror it was, what a desolating scourge it was.
27.
The band's name refers to the historical brotherhood of the Thuggee, a following of the goddess Kali and not directly to the related English loan word thug.
28.
Colonel Weed and Major Mitchell ( Lumsden Hare ) identify an enemy weapon brought back as belonging to the Thuggee, a murderous cult that had been suppressed for many years.
29.
It may also have influenced " The Deceivers ", a 1988 film with Pierce Brosnan as the officer determined to put an end to the practice of Thuggee.
30.
This method, associated with Thuggee, led to the Thugs being called " phansigars " ( " noose-operators " ) or " stranglers " by British troops.
